Doubling Up in the Parking Lot!

Deputy Editor

On one hand, I’m completely appalled at the whole gas/brake confusion happening in this clip. But on the other hand, I’m totally impressed with how the X5 took out those cars. I guess hitting the parking block gave it a little boost, but it looked like with a little more gas, it might have been able to just drive off the other side. And what’s up with the person not even getting out to check the damage?

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Posted at 2:44 pm in BMW X5, Funny, John Coyle, Wrecks

Comments

OldsCruiser
Nov 3, 2009 at 8:08 am

Ahhhhh.. follow up story on incident a week later.

http://consumerist.com/5395594/hyundai-replaces-car-destroyed-in-bmw-parking-lot-attack

Guy gets new car, woman charged with incident.

OldsCruiser
Oct 28, 2009 at 8:22 am

Who said anything about a woman? You assumed.
It’s insert your own character.

sarahsmile90
Oct 28, 2009 at 6:35 am

Wow…some people had a lot to say about this. Thanks to the commentators who DID not assume this was a women driving….we don’t all suck.

OldsCruiser
Oct 28, 2009 at 6:27 am

Apparently I can’t use the Greater than & less than symbol in post, so my last post was a little out of context…, so here is the amended version…sorry
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Audio Commentary as it Happens….

00:08-00:19 -(on cell phone) Well you know that girl on that show Atlanta’s housewives…, the one with the boxer dog face and those cheap extensions….? She’s just lucky that she don’t ever meet me in the street, because i would slap the Bia…AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH>>>BANG!!!!!!Crash!!!!

00:19-00:36 – SHOOT!!( family friendly term) I’ll call you back, got to go! -Click-
OMG!! OMG! What am I going to do? (light bulb above the head-Ding) OK, let me see if i can back off.
OK…, I’m off. Let me compose myself…

00:36-00:55 – MANNNNN! I really Fracked up those other cars, (slowly driving by while looking) well crap…, as long as my ride is still rolling…

00:55-01:09 – Exit stage right…., I’m out of here.

01:09-05:00 – -Unseen directors cut- Rinnnnggg…. Hello Tripple A , I have a problem with my vehicle, It just stopped running. Say something about oil in the display. Can you send a tow truck? -State Patrol pulls up behind disabled motorist…. Hilarity ensues… : )

OldsCruiser
Oct 28, 2009 at 6:21 am

Audio Commentary as it Happens….

00:19-00:36 – SHOOT!!( family friendly term) I’ll call you back, got to go!
OMG!! OMG! What am I going to do? (light bulb above the head-Ding) OK, let me see if i can back off.
OK…, I’m off. Let me compose myself…

00:36-00:55 – MANNNNN! I really Fracked up those other cars, (slowly driving by while looking) well crap…, as long as my ride is still rolling…

00:55-01:09 – Exit stage right…., I’m out of here.

01:09-05:00 – Rinnnnggg…. Hello Tripple A , I have a problem with my vehicle, It just stopped running. Say something about oil in the display. Can you send a tow truck? : )

OldsCruiser
Oct 28, 2009 at 5:41 am

Well, more than likely they were on the phone. Notice the constant speed (pace) and the wide rolling turns, as if someone is occupied with something other than driving?
As for not getting out, they figured out someone or something had to be watching, and they didn’t have insurance-license, or were afraid their insurance would cancel them.
But Fury Paul is right…, heavy fluid on the ground after the bounce. Guarantee they didn’t get to far.

FuryPaul
Oct 27, 2009 at 7:10 pm

The X5 has some damage–note the dark streak on the pavement after it, ah, dismounts.
Maybe they’ll get a catastrophic engine failure on top of their other problems…

Funny story: I decided to go grocery shopping on my way home from a car show Sunday and when I got back to my car and youngish woman and a twelve-ish boy were getting into the car in the next spot. I started up my car and waited for the woman to back out first. She fired up her late-model Cobalt, put it in gear, and DROVE RIGHT INTO THE EIGHT-INCH-HIGH CURB. Hellacious scraping noises ensued as she dragged her bumper over the curb, stopping only when something metal hit the concrete.
She had apparently either forgotten she was parked at a curb or had never noticed it to begin with, and intended to just pull forward instead of backing up.
She backed up (more horrible scraping noises), got out and checked her car. The bits that showed looked fine, so she got back in her car, restarted it and backed out of the space. I didn’t catch what she said to the person in the next car over, who had gotten out to see what had happened, but I got the impression it was along the lines of “Why would they put that stupid curb there?”

JoeCool97Formula
Oct 27, 2009 at 6:51 pm

And the douche bag runs off! Hope they threw the book at his/her sorry ass!

Robb31
Oct 27, 2009 at 3:33 pm

I told my grampa he needs to stop driving..